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FUDCon 2008 - Links for the session "Getting Students Involved in Open Source" Sat, Jan 12. 2008


Here are the links for the session Getting Students Involved in Open Source at FUDCon 2008:This session was co-presented with Will Cohen, and you can find his homepage here: http://people.redhat.com/wcohen
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#1 - Clint Savage said:
2008-01-15 11:35 - (Reply)

Chris,

I was interested if maybe we could combine forces in this area with the FedoraFamily page I wrote on the wiki. I think there are a lot of good ideas that have been floating around in both camps and could possibly be better if we worked together.

Let me know what you think.

Cheers,

Clint

#1.1 - Chris Tyler 2008-01-16 08:53 - (Reply)

Hi Clint,

I think we have different purposes as well as different audiences. FedoraFamily (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraFamily for readers not familiar with the wiki) is aimed at "getting the family to use Fedora and open source tools" -- supporting casual users, including those with less technical expertise, as they become users of Fedora.

The work I'm doing is getting students who are technically astute and already using open source software to take the step of becoming contributors (whether as programmers, bug hunters, packagers, integrators, testers, or documenters).

We should look for opportunities to support each other, but I think that there is enough of a difference in our purposes and audiences that it would be difficult to combine our efforts.

-Chris


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